mutter mutter mutter crap forks mutter mutter mutter.
The damping is rubbish, dive through the travel which they sit to low in because the the low speed is non existant in “descend” mode. So is is the high speed damping, you’re stuck between pumping them up hard enough to sstop the bastids diving when you push in to corners or pumping lips but harsh as buggery over anything vaguely rooty, roocky or square edged or making them soft enough to give you reasonable grip and some plush over the rough and then having to contend with diving that would put Das Boot to shame.
The to add insult to injjury, actually to add injury to injury and insult the bloody talas air spring (which is a bit rubbish anyway) decides to pack up and lock down at some where between the 100mm and 130mm setting! Then sits in the last 30mm of its pathetic travel for the rest oof the trail back to the car at which point I run out of it’s ‘travel’ OTB and sprain my wrist. BBAstid.
Less than a year old, pprobably only 20ish hours riding on them. Whisky Oscar November Kilo.
Ancient 32’s RL I bought off here for a few quid? Great. 36’s? excellent. 831’s? Also excellent. 40’s a whole bundle of magically awesome goodness.
2013 34 Talas CTD? Massive bag of sommething bad probably involving Picolax. Avoid. Avoid like you would avoid a sweaty fat chick at 3am if you weren’t hammered. You Poor bastid…
My wrist hurts and I decided it would be a good idea to leave the V10 in the uk so I’m DH’able bikeless.
And don’t even get me started on ggetting a fox fork fixed in the antippodeans.
Bah. Im finishing the wine. At least the ozzies can just about do that right.
Double bah.
